mark pryor wrote:

*/Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com/* wrote:

I have installed spamassassin, per the instructions on Scalix's wiki,
and it is working, with some important caviats. So I asked for
help on
the spamassassin user list, and got some, but I think I am butting up
against some Centos specific issues...

So over at spamassassin list I was told not to let spamassassin
run as
root. To create a user: spamfilter. and add -u spamfilter to the
start
command.

So I created the user and group. I ran the spamassassin --lint and -D
--lint

Then I went to /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin and change the lines:

# Set default spamd configuration.
SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -m5 -H"
SPAMD_PID=/var/run/spamd.pid

to

# Set default spamd configuration.
SPAMDOPTIONS="-u spamfilter -d -c -m5 -H"
SPAMD_PID=/var/run/spamd.pid


And then did:


/etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin restart

and spamassassin is still running as root and I am still getting
these errors....

Robert,

check if you have the directory /home/spamfilter

and try adding the extra (-u spamfilter) param in /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin

OK that worked. It is now running as user spamfilter, but things are still not working.

2264 root 15:48 /usr/bin/spamd -u spamfilter -d -c -m5 -H -r /var/run/spamd.pid 2301 spamfilter 15:48 spamd child 2302 spamfilter 15:48 spamd child

Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z sendmail[3913]: l7HK0VeM003913: from=1-809368-htt-consult.com?dm@mx121.susanshopping.com, size=6708, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=1-809368-6vhNLrr-70zbBFrP70h@mx121.susanshopping.com, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: spamd: connection from localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] at port 36972 Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: spamd: creating default_prefs: /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: mkdir /root/.spamassassin: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1536 Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: config: cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs: Permission denied Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: spamd: failed to create readable default_prefs: /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: mkdir /root/.spamassassin: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1536 Aug 17 16:00:31 z9m9z spamd[2301]: spamd: processing message 1-809368-6vhNLrr-70zbBFrP70h@mx121.susanshopping.com for root:502 Aug 17 16:00:33 z9m9z spamd[2301]: mkdir /root/.spamassassin: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1536 Aug 17 16:00:33 z9m9z spamd[2301]: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.z9m9z.htt-consult.com.2301 for /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied Aug 17 16:00:33 z9m9z spamd[2301]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.z9m9z.htt-consult.com.2301 for /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied Aug 17 16:00:33 z9m9z spamd[2301]: spamd: identified spam (8.5/5.0) for root:502 in 2.6 seconds, 7247 bytes.

And there are no files within /home/spamfilter/.spamassassin